Dr. Janjira Paengnoi

Dr. Janjira Paengnoi (Thai: จันทร์จิรา แปงหน้อย) has held a plastic surgeon's post since 2014 at Kamol Cosmetic Hospital, a specialist cosmetic surgery hospital located in Wang Thonglang, Bangkok, and the expertise it publishes for her is body contouring and breast augmentation. Her Thai-language records use the honorific พญ., the title for a female physician. Kamol includes her in its list of plastic surgeons. We could not trace any other current place of practice: Kamol is the only hospital or clinic we found with a profile of her.

Her official profile centres on the body rather than the face. It names four areas of expertise:

• body contouring and body sculpting, described as S-curve and hourglass shaping;
• liposuction and fat transfer to the buttocks and hips;
• breast augmentation and breast reshaping;
• abdominal etching for a more defined, masculine abdomen.

On ThaiCosmeticSurgery.com these become four documented procedures: liposuction, the Brazilian butt lift (fat transfer to the buttocks), breast augmentation and abdominal etching. A procedure appears on her page only because an official source names it. The phrase 'breast reshaping' is too general to stand for a breast lift or a reduction, so neither is listed for her.

Qualifications in brief. According to her hospital profile, Dr. Janjira completed medical school at Chiang Mai University in 2005, completed a plastic surgery residency at Phramongkutklao Hospital in Bangkok from 2009 to 2013, and holds the Thai Board of Plastic Surgery diploma, awarded in 2013. Three professional bodies carry her name in records we opened ourselves: Thailand's Royal College of Surgeons (RCST), under its plastic surgery branch; ThPRS, the plastic and reconstructive surgeons' society; and ThSAPS, the aesthetic plastic surgeons' society, whose former online directory carried her name.

What is not publicly documented. Her profile does not state the languages she speaks, her clinic days, her prices or any verifiable number of operations, and this page leaves those blanks empty rather than guessing. If one of them matters to your decision, tell our patient team and we will raise it with Kamol.

To talk through liposuction, a BBL, breast augmentation or abdominal etching with her, request a consultation with Dr. Janjira Paengnoi. We forward your request to Kamol and come back to you with her availability; no surgery date is set until Kamol has agreed one with you. Our provider research methodology explains which sources count and how her credentials were cross-checked.

Dr. Janjira's education is published on her English-language Kamol profile, and independent records support the key steps. The years are as the hospital gives them.

• 2005: Doctor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai.
• 2009–2013: residency in plastic surgery, Phramongkutklao Hospital, Bangkok.
• 2013: Thai Board diploma in plastic surgery (Diplomate; Thai: วุฒิบัตรศัลยกรรมตกแต่ง), awarded through Phramongkutklao College of Medicine, Royal Thai Army.
• Training in body surgery techniques at Kamol Cosmetic Hospital, under Dr. Kamol Pansritum, as stated on her hospital profile. No dates are given for it.

How the residency was corroborated. Phramongkutklao's own alumni list for its plastic and reconstructive surgery training places her in class 19 and gives Kamol Cosmetic Hospital in Bangkok as her workplace. That list spells her Thai surname แปงน้อย, a small variant of the แปงหน้อย found on Kamol's profile and in Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand (RCST) records. The วุฒิบัตร she holds is the specialist diploma a Thai doctor earns by completing plastic surgery residency training, which makes it the first thing to look for when you weigh one Thai plastic surgeon against another.

Research from her training years. PubMed holds one record under her name: a 2015 paper in *Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research* testing whether giving cilostazol before surgery improves the survival of random skin flaps, run as a double-blinded randomised controlled trial in rats. The paper gives her address as Phramongkutklao Hospital and College of Medicine, in its plastic and reconstructive surgery division, which is where she trained. It is laboratory research on skin flap healing, not a study of liposuction, fat grafting or implants, and we cite it for completeness only.

Learning at Kamol. The hospital says that its chief plastic surgeon, Dr. Kamol Pansritum, trained her in body surgery techniques. That is the hospital's own description. It does not say which techniques or over what period, so read it as context about how she came to focus on body surgery rather than as a formal fellowship.

Society memberships and how we checked them

• ThPRS (Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeons of Thailand): her entry sits on the society's open online member list under the spelling Janjira Pangnoi, with Kamol Cosmetic Hospital as her address, and was posted in November 2019.
• ThSAPS (Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, Thailand): her name appeared, with a Kamol address, in the society's own former online directory. That directory has since gone offline, so we read it through archived copies from 2019 and 2020; there is no current public ThSAPS list to re-check against.
• Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand (RCST): searching its member records returns her (JANJIRA PAENGNOI) in the plastic surgery branch. Kamol's profile does not mention this; we found it independently.
• Stated on the hospital profile only: membership of a Royal College of Plastic Surgeons of Thailand (ราชวิทยาลัยศัลยแพทย์ตกแต่งแห่งประเทศไทย, name as published), ISAPS membership (International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery) and Thai Medical Council membership. When we went through the Thailand results of ISAPS's Find-a-Surgeon search on 27 September 2026, she was not among them. An absence from a directory does not prove a membership has lapsed, but it means we cannot confirm this one.

She also has no entry in the newer, opt-in doctor directory run at plasticsurgery.or.th: searching for her names returned no result, while a control search for another surgeon worked normally.

As her Kamol profiles record it, Dr. Janjira's career began in the public hospitals of Chiang Rai province in northern Thailand and moved to private cosmetic surgery in Bangkok after her specialist training.

• Since 2014: Plastic Surgeon, Kamol Cosmetic Hospital, Bangkok. Her current role. Kamol lists her with its plastic surgeons, and the work described on her profile is body contouring and breast surgery.
• 2013–2014: Plastic Surgeon, Chiangrai Prachanukroh Hospital, Chiang Rai. Her first specialist post once her residency had finished.
• 2005–2009: early career in Chiang Rai. The two language versions of her profile differ here. The English profile lists her as a general practitioner at Chiangrai Prachanukroh Hospital from 2005 to 2009. The Thai profile instead gives an internship year there (2005–2006) followed by compulsory public service (แพทย์ใช้ทุน) at Mae Sai Hospital, Chiang Rai (2006–2008). We show both versions rather than choose between them. In general, newly qualified Thai doctors spend their first years in public-hospital service of this kind.

Her colleagues at Kamol. Kamol Cosmetic Hospital lists seven plastic surgeons, led by its chief plastic surgeon, Dr. Kamol Pansritum. Its male-to-female and female-to-male departments draw on a wider gender-affirming team whose members include a urologist, two gynaecologists, two colorectal surgeons, a paediatric surgeon and an ear, nose and throat (head and neck) surgeon. Within that group, Dr. Janjira's published expertise is body and breast surgery. Her profile does not list the hospital's facial, genital or voice surgery, and none of those operations appears on her page here.

What the profile does not tell you. Kamol publishes no operating days or clinic hours for her and no verifiable count of the operations she has performed. The profile's general statements about her experience give no figures that can be checked, so we have not repeated them. Two things are worth asking her directly instead: how many of your particular procedure she carries out in a typical year, and how a complication would be managed once you are back in your home country.

Every heading below is an area named on Dr. Janjira's official Kamol profile. The *Her profile* lines report what that profile says. The *In general* lines summarise our own procedure guides: they explain typical practice, not her personal technique, and whether an operation suits you is only settled when she has assessed you in person.

Body contouring: the idea behind her listed procedures

Her profile frames her work as sculpting: shaping the waist, hips and buttocks into an S-curve or hourglass outline rather than simply removing fat. The Thai version goes further and describes reshaping the torso, arms, legs, hips and breasts so that they sit in proportion with one another and suit the gender the patient wants. In practice, contouring of this kind often combines procedures, for example liposuction of the waist and flanks with fat transfer to the buttocks and hips. In general, the risks of body contouring rise with larger volumes and with several procedures in one session, so agreeing a combined plan also means agreeing what to do now and what to stage.

Liposuction

*Her profile:* liposuction is a listed area of expertise and the first technique her overview names for body sculpting.

*In general:* liposuction takes fat out of selected areas, commonly the abdomen, flanks, back, thighs and upper arms, through small incisions with a thin cannula. Its job is to change shape, not body weight, and it cannot correct cellulite or skin that has lost its elasticity. Where skin is lax, a skin-tightening operation such as a tummy tuck may be the answer, and that operation is not documented for Dr. Janjira. Most modern liposuction begins with tumescent fluid; ultrasound-assisted methods such as VASER liposuction are sometimes chosen for fibrous areas or detailed sculpting. Kamol's own liposuction page covers VASER, but her profile does not say which method she uses, so ask.

Patients usually wear a compression garment for several weeks, many are back at desk work after about a week, and the finished shape emerges gradually as swelling subsides, typically between the third and sixth month. Possible complications include contour irregularities, asymmetry, numbness, fluid collections, infection and, more rarely but seriously, blood clots and fat embolism. For a liposuction-only trip, the common stay in our guide is 7–10 days in Thailand; allow more if a large volume is removed or other operations are done in the same session.

Brazilian butt lift: fat grafting to the buttocks and hips

*Her profile:* 'liposuction and fat transfer to buttocks/hips' is a listed area of expertise, which is why our site lists her for the Brazilian butt lift. The hips are named alongside the buttocks, which fits the hourglass shaping her overview describes.

*In general:* a BBL harvests fat with liposuction, typically from the abdomen, flanks and back, purifies it and injects it into the buttocks. Part of the transferred fat is reabsorbed, so the final volume is judged after several months, and you need enough donor fat to begin with. Very lean patients may be steered towards buttock implants instead; Kamol offers buttock implants, but they are not documented for Dr. Janjira.

The safety question every BBL patient should raise is fat embolism, a rare but potentially fatal complication in which fat enters large veins deep in the buttock muscle. Safety guidance issued by plastic surgery societies is to inject fat only into the subcutaneous layer, above the gluteal muscle, using techniques designed to keep the cannula out of that muscle. Ask Dr. Janjira plainly where she places the fat and how her team monitors safety. In general, patients keep direct pressure off the buttocks for about two weeks, using a cushion or sitting on the thighs when they must sit, and a BBL trip commonly lasts 10–14 days.

Breast augmentation

*Her profile:* 'breast augmentation and breast reshaping', with an overview that describes her as specialising in body contouring and breast enhancement.

*In general:* breast augmentation adds volume or changes breast shape using silicone or saline implants or, alternatively, fat taken from elsewhere on the body. When implants are used, four choices are normally talked through: the implant's shape, round or anatomical; its shell, smooth or textured, bearing in mind that some textured shells have been linked to a greater likelihood of BIA-ALCL, an uncommon lymphoma; an incision under the breast in its fold, at the areola's lower border or in the armpit; and a pocket, which can lie on top of the pectoral muscle or partly behind it. No implant lasts a lifetime, and a later operation to replace or remove one is common.

Kamol's breast augmentation page offers both implants and fat transfer breast augmentation; her profile does not say which of the two she performs, so we list her for breast augmentation only. 'Breast reshaping' is likewise not specific enough to link her to a breast lift. That matters because augmentation alone does not raise a low nipple position. If you think you may need a lift, a reduction or an implant revision, ask whether Dr. Janjira or another Kamol surgeon would take it on. Our breast augmentation guide gives a common stay of 7–10 days, a return to desk work after about a week for many people, and strenuous exercise after about six weeks, always on the surgeon's advice.

Abdominal etching

*Her profile:* 'abdominal etching for masculine definition'.

*In general:* abdominal etching uses liposuction to sculpt rather than simply to reduce. Fat is removed selectively along the lines of the abdominal muscles so that their outline shows more clearly. Our abdominal etching page is still brief; our liposuction guide describes the closely related high-definition technique as sculpting around muscle contours for suitable lean patients. Kamol publishes the procedure on a six-pack surgery page that also lists VASER-assisted high-definition liposculpture.

Two practical points follow from how it works. Definition depends on a thin layer of fat over the muscles, so candidates are generally lean and at a stable weight; and because the result relies on that layer staying thin, later weight gain can soften it. Recovery and risks broadly follow those of liposuction, and contour irregularities matter more when the aim is a precise outline.

Gender-affirming body contouring: what is and is not documented

Dr. Janjira's profiles use gender-aware language: the English overview speaks of feminine curves and of a more masculine look, and the Thai overview of shaping the body to suit the desired gender. Neither profile, however, lists a gender-affirming body procedure as one of her services, so we have not linked her to body feminization or body masculinization. Kamol lists breast augmentation for trans women as a hospital service without naming her as its surgeon. If you are a trans or non-binary patient interested in body contouring, hip shaping or breast augmentation, ask our patient team to confirm with Kamol which surgeon would see you.

A first consultation with Dr. Janjira is where a body contouring plan is agreed, adjusted or ruled out. If you are still abroad, Kamol can hold a secure video consultation with one of its surgeons, so you can start that conversation before you book flights. The plan is only fixed once she has seen and examined you at Kamol and your pre-operative test results are in.

Questions for any procedure with her

• Do you carry out every step of the operation personally, and who else from your team takes part?
• Who administers the anaesthetic, and what type would you suggest for my plan?
• If I want several things done, which do you advise combining and which should be staged?
• How many of this specific procedure do you perform in a year?
• After the operation, on which days will you review me yourself, and who looks after my wounds at K Garden or my hotel?
• What happens, and who pays, if a complication or revision is needed after I fly home?

If you are discussing liposuction or abdominal etching

• Which areas do you suggest, and is there a volume you would not go beyond in one session?
• Which method do you use, tumescent, VASER or another, and why for my body?
• For etching: is my body fat low enough for visible definition, and what will weight change do to the result?
• For how many weeks will I be in a compression garment, and what do you recommend to lower the risk of a clot on the long flight back?

If you are discussing a BBL or fat transfer to the hips

• Will every graft go into the fat under the skin, above the gluteal muscle, and what stops your cannula from entering that muscle?
• Do I have enough donor fat for the shape I want?
• What share of the grafted fat usually takes, and how often do patients need a top-up session?
• How should I sit, sleep and travel in the first weeks?

If you are discussing breast augmentation

• Implants or fat, and which do you perform?
• For implants, which manufacturer, profile, shell and volume would suit my frame, and why?
• Which incision site would you use, and would the implant sit above or partly below the muscle in my case?
• Do I need a lift as well, now or later?
• Will I leave Bangkok with an implant card showing the manufacturer, size and lot number?

Language. No languages are listed on her Kamol profile. The hospital's contact page says English and Thai are spoken by its team, with interpretation into other languages available if you ask for it; anyone who needs an interpreter should say so when sending the consultation request.

Write your questions down before the call. A clear, unhurried answer to the fat-placement question for a BBL, and to the staging question for combined procedures, tells you a great deal about how a surgeon manages risk.

Every practical arrangement for an overseas patient of Dr. Janjira runs through Kamol, because it is her only documented place of practice. The details below are the ones Kamol publishes; see our Kamol Cosmetic Hospital profile for more.

Where to go. Kamol's street address is 1223 Lat Phrao 94, Inthraphon Road; the district is Wang Thonglang and the postcode Bangkok 10310.

Moving through the building. For a body contouring or breast patient, nearly the whole hospital stay takes place under one roof. Blood tests, X-ray, ultrasound, an ECG and, where needed, a cardiac stress test are done on the 2nd floor, in the hospital's wellness and diagnostic centre, and registration and consultation rooms are one floor up, on the 3rd. Surgery happens on the 4th floor, which has seven operating rooms according to the Thai edition of Kamol's facilities page, including one for microsurgery and an endoscopic suite, and an 11-bed monitored recovery room adjoins the theatres. Ward nights are spent on the 5th or 6th floor, where a central nursing station serves standard rooms (26 sqm) and VIP rooms (52 sqm). Above them, the 7th floor has medical residence apartments, 26 sqm standard or 52 sqm superior, for patients who stay on to recover.

Accreditation. When we searched the Joint Commission International directory on 27 September 2026, it showed Kamol Cosmetic Hospital as accredited under JCI's hospital programme. A search of Thailand's HA accreditation records found no entry for the hospital.

Support Kamol offers international patients. Every consultation request is given a personal representative to coordinate it, and an international telephone line takes enquiries, including urgent ones. The hospital can help with hotel reservations and airport transfers, and sends a limousine to take you to the airport when you leave. Once discharged from the ward, patients recover at K Garden, a set of serviced apartments Kamol runs close by, where wounds are dressed, stitches are removed and the surgeon reviews progress. Kamol can also extend a medical treatment visa. For payment, Kamol takes bank transfers, credit and debit cards, and cash in six currencies: baht, euros, sterling, and US, Australian and Canadian dollars.

Length of stay. Let the most demanding operation in your plan set the length of the trip. As general guidance, our procedure pages put a liposuction or a breast augmentation trip at 7–10 days and a BBL trip at 10–14 days, and suggest staying longer when operations are combined or large volumes are treated. Dr. Janjira makes the call on when you can fly, so a changeable return ticket is worth paying for.

The flight home. After a BBL, bring a BBL cushion, choose an aisle seat and walk regularly. After breast augmentation, do not lift heavy suitcases yourself; have a companion or a transfer service handle them. Whatever the procedure, raise clot prevention for a long-haul flight, for instance compression stockings, before you leave.

Your records. Leave Bangkok with a written operation summary, plus your implant card after breast augmentation, so that your own doctor can follow up or treat a later problem with the full facts.

Gather these items before your consultation, but hold them until Kamol's representative asks and tells you how to send them. Faces can be left out of every photo by cropping at the neck.

For every consultation

• Your goals in a few lines, and which of her procedures you want to discuss.
• Age, height, current weight and how stable your weight has been in recent months.
• Medical history: long-term conditions, previous operations, any problems with anaesthesia, and any history of blood clots in you or your close family.
• Medicines and supplements, especially blood thinners, and any hormone therapy with doses.
• Whether you smoke or vape.
• The dates you could travel and the longest stay in Bangkok you can manage.

Photos for liposuction, a BBL or abdominal etching

• Standing, in underwear or swimwear, against a plain background in even light.
• Front, back, both sides and both three-quarter views, framed from the chest to the knees.
• For abdominal etching, one front and one side view with the abdominal muscles relaxed, and the same with them tensed.
• If you have had liposuction or fat grafting before, say where and when, and send the operation notes if you have them.

Photos and details for breast augmentation

• Five chest photos, taken straight on, from the left and right sides and from two angled positions in between, with your arms hanging loosely, framed from just below the chin down to the waistline.
• The cup size you wear today and the one you are hoping for; pictures of results you like can help explain it.
• Details of earlier breast operations, plus the implant card or surgical report for any implants you have now.
• Any recent breast ultrasound or mammogram reports, and whether a future pregnancy or breastfeeding is part of your plans.

Sending this in advance lets Dr. Janjira's team say early whether your goals fit her documented procedures, and which tests to arrange for your first day in Bangkok.